I have been told
Anika K.
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When I write, I consider ways in which I can artfully and visually arrange vocabulary to create a sense, a mood--similar to a visual work of art. I approach writing and poetry, especially, with a painter's eye. Poetry is the most tangible form of literary art--the most similar to visual fine arts, and I imitate the visual artist's approach in my poetic process.
Although poetry is the most obvious to me, I infuse that creative artist process in every piece of writing I do. As a journalist and editor, I select articles and stories that display a greater importance and exigence--real narratives instead of fictional. I seek to display underreported and ignored people in both my journalistic work, creative writing, and poetry.
My poetry is also the most personal of all my writing. I infuse my most raw, adolescent, female, hysteric emotions in my work, mostly utilizing a shorter free verse structure that emphasizes work choice over traditional verse structure and rhyme. My poems read like narrative accounts, in the mode of Lyric poetry. I seek to paint a situation, an image, and a narrative through carefully chosen and often whimsical word choice that displays struggles that resonate with young women and young people that share that social and personal context.
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I have always been fascinated by the narrative and artistic threads that make up our world. My creativity is expressed through my pursuit and physical realization of those threads through works. Narrative and history, whether visual or literal, shapes my worldview.
